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June’s Xbox Games with Gold have been announced and the titles are: The King’s Bird, Shadows: Awakening, NeoGeo Battle Coliseum, and Injustice: Gods Among Us. The King’s Bird is an award-winning artistic platform adventure title featuring physics-based movement. It will be available for the entire month of June. From June 16 to July 15, Shadows: Awakening will be made available. It stars a demon summoned from the Shadow Realm to consume the souls of long-dead heroes....

Microsoft’s gaming business continues to help bring in record revenue for the company, as Microsoft has reported a large uptick in quarterly revenue coming off the back of the launch of the Xbox Series X/S. In its latest financial results, Microsoft announced that the gaming division revenue was up 50% year-on-year, boasting huge $3.53 billion earnings over the past 12 months. The vast majority of that income stems from Xbox hardware (largely the launch of the Xbox Series X/S), which is up 232%....

As well as there being almost 90 million active users on Xbox Live, there are currently over 10 million people subscribed to Xbox Game Pass, whereas Project xCloud already has hundreds of thousands of active users testing the service in preview. Preview opportunities for Project xCloud recently rolled out to France, Germany, and the Netherlands, with invites having been sent via email to people who pre-registered for preview access. As it stands, there are a range of games available to play via the service’s preview build, including but not exclusive to Gears 5, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and Destiny 2....

Each title featured during the Xbox Summer Game Demo Fest is an upcoming unreleased game for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Because some of the demos are an early version of the game and aren’t scheduled for release for quite some time, some won’t be indicative of the final product. Just keep that in mind. These demos will only be available on the Xbox Dashboard until June 21, but Microsoft said some might be re-published to the demo channel later on....

While the new wireless controller will still look about the same as before, there are a few key differences. Speaking to Xbox Wire, Whitaker describes the main areas that the team wanted to deliver on: improved ergonomics for a wider range of people, better cross-device connectivity, easier sharing, and reduced latency. But ultimately the idea is inclusivity. “Being more inclusive is part of the design process from the very beginning....

Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, has once again reiterated earlier comments that Xbox Series X hardware production hasn’t run into any major delays, confirming that the next-gen console remains on track for a holiday launch. Speaking to CNBC, Spencer said that while coronavirus did have a small impact on some plans when it comes to hardware, the bigger question is how large this impact is going to have on game development schedules....

Nintendo has released a new Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition video and it introduces the cast of characters. In the video, you will see some of the main characters including Dunban, Fiora, Melia, Reyn, Riki, Sharla, and Shulk (thanks, Gematsu). The Definitive Edition of the game was announced back in September during a Nintendo Direct. It was originally released for Wii back in 2010 before eventually heading to Nintendo 3DS. The upcoming Switch release promises improved graphics this time around, and the Battle HUD and menu screens have been revamped....

YouTube announced in September a series of changes would be made to better protect children and their privacy after concerns were raised by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). These changes now require all YouTube creators to designate content as Made for Kids or not Made for Kids in YouTube Studio. The change also makes it so anyone watching a video designated as Made for Kids will be “treated as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user....

As of this month, it’s been twenty years since the Mafia series made its debut with Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, and it’s certainly come a long way since. In commemoration, general manager Roman Hladík and head of production/media director Tomáš Hřebíček - who have worked on every game in the series - sat down, looked back on Mafia, and shared some dazzling new information with fans. They were also joined by another Hangar 13 game director, Alex Cox, who has been with them since the Mafia 2....

Until they weren’t. The studio hit critical mass, and the quality of its games suffered: from 2017 onwards, after a restructuring of the studio that affected the cadence of its releases, the studio fell from grace. In trying to recreate the magic of The Walking Dead, Telltale creatively suffocated its staff and homogenised its output. A series of gaffes soiled the company’s reputation. As quickly as the world fell in love with the studio, it forgot about it....

Netflix’s The Witcher series has its own bath scene, in which Geralt actor Henry Cavill lazily plays with the surface of the water with one knee sticking out of the bath. If we’d just had a different shaped bathtub, though, we could have got the full Quentin Tarantino treatment. Say it with me: feet! Feet! Feet! OK, this got weird quickly. “I don’t know how many people realised how iconic it was - that there was already a visual attached,” Cavill said in an interview with the BBC....

The logo, of course, is quite innocuous in nature. Resident Evil is a game about viruses, and the logo is meant to resemble a virus under a microscope or whatever. I get it. I see it. But back in the run-up to Resident Evil’s release, people saw something else entirely. They saw a giraffe, being fellated by a doubled-over figure. And now I’ve said it, even those of you who weren’t terminally online in 2012 probably see it too....

As publisher Sony and developer Polyphony Digital noted, the game went offline as expected on March 17, 2022. It was only supposed to be down between 6am and 8am UTC – but it’s stayed offline ever since. Oops. At the time of writing, that’s over 24 hours of downtime for what was supposed to be two hours (and at a time most people wouldn’t be up). You’d think that wouldn’t have too much of an issue on people that were keen to play it offline, right?...

That’s right, you’re reading our weekly hidden indie gems round-up where no heat wave can stop us from bringing you some really cool games with news to share, and a couple you get to actually play this weekend. Hot indie games week of August 10 9 Monkeys of Shaolin The beat ‘em up genre may not wield the clout it once had, but it’s never truly absent. Some beat ‘em ups wear their inspirations on the sleeve, others bury them under loot and bloat, but a new brawler is never too far behind....

In a statement released by the group, A Better Ubisoft claim that the publisher hasn’t moved past merely acknowledging things need to change. “16 months since Ubisoft was forced to take limited action following public posts on Twitter, you talk about ‘a strategic roadmap of change for HR’ that you are ‘getting ready to start rolling out’ giving no timeline for delivery nor any hint of what those changes will be,” the statement reads....

As reported by Eurogamer, PC players who are using mods can no longer boot up the game while mods are turned on. Warner Bros. has recently filed a takedown notice on YouTube videos showing off MultiVersus character mods, and now in the most recent patch original any kind of mod is unusable. Mods for MultiVersus have mostly been a bit skins so far, which will only be viewable to the player that has them installed, as obviously anything that affects gameplay would be unfair to other players....

The charging document suggests that the company “repeatedly engaged in unlawful conduct by threatening employees”. In addition, Activision Blizzard is accused of telling employees “they cannot communicate with or discuss ongoing investigations of wages, hours and working conditions; maintained an overly broad social media policy; enforced the social media policy against employees who have engaged in protected concerted activity; threatened or disciplined employees on account of protected concerted activity; engaged in surveillance of employees engaged in protected concerted activity and engaged in interrogation of employees about protected concerted activity....

Additional titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in October have been announced, and starting this week you will be able to download and play Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition on PC. The game arrives on October 15 alongside Heave Ho, Katana Zero, Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition, and The Swords of Ditto: Mormo’s Curse. In Heave Ho, coming to PC, you and up to four players will be tasked with not falling to your death....

Normally, you can expect to cough up around $400 for this premium gaming chair, but right now you can grab it for under $200. The online giant has slashed a mega $204 off it in the Prime Day sales, which means you’re getting the chair for less than half price! The experts at Digital Foundry have also given it their nod of approval. Those in the UK are being treated to a smaller 38 per cent discount on the Razer Iskur X, making it £250....

It’s been ten years since the release of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and now – emboldened after the success of SOMA – Frictional Games has returned with the horror sequel, Amnesia: Rebirth. Arriving tomorrow, October 20, on PC and PlayStation 4, the game has certainly made an impression with critics around the world. If you’re in the mood to get scared and spooked ahead of Halloween 2020, it looks like this will be the perfect game for you....